David makes short and feature-length documentary films about the human connection with place. Brief profiles of two of his major projects, The Area and Almost There, are presented below. Among other projects, he contributed the Chicago section of "Highrise: Out My Window," an interactive documentary that won the 2011 International Digital Emmy for Non-Fiction.

David is the director, cinematographer, and co-producer of The Area, an in-process documentary film about a South Side Chicago neighborhood being demolished to make way for an intermodal freight yard. Since September 2011, residents have been living on borrowed time, maintaining friendships and traditions while struggling with new problems in their vanishing community.

The feature-length film will make its world premiere at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April 2018. The award-winning first short from the project, featured below, was published by Gapers Block as part of its documentary film series, The Grid.